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The School of Engineering and Applied Science opened inmaking UVA the first comprehensive university to open an engineering school. However, an extremely high number of officers of both Confederacy and Union were alumni. Thanks to a grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia, tuition became free for all Virginians in As the original Rotunda caught fire and was gutted inthere would soon be sweeping change afoot, changes much greater than merely reconstructing the Rotunda in Edwin Alderman was UVA's first president between andand instituted many reforms toward modernization Wikisource has original text related to this article: Rather, this power was to be shared by a rector and a Board of Visitors.

But as the 19th century waned, it became obvious this cumbersome arrangement was incapable of adequately handling the many administrative and fundraising tasks of the growing university. His appointment was not without controversy, and national media such as Popular Science lamented the end of one of the things that made UVA unique among universities.

Delayed by the Great DepressionAlderman Library was named in his honor in Alderman, who seven years earlier had died in office en route to giving a public speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaignis still the longest-tenured president of the university.

The university first admitted a few selected women to graduate studies in the late s and to certain programs such as nursing and education in the s and s. With this branch campus in Fredericksburg exclusively for women, UVA maintained its main campus in Charlottesville as near-exclusively for men, until a civil rights lawsuit of the s forced it to commingle the sexes.

Bywomen made up a 52 percent majority of the total student body. At the time, UVA had a football program that had just broken through to be nationally ranked in, andand consistently beat its rivals North Carolina and Virginia Tech by such scores as 34—7 and 44—0. Other sports were very competitive as well. However, the administration of Colgate Darden de-emphasized athletics, barely allowing the school to join the nascent ACC. It would take until the s for the bulk of programs to fully recover, but approaching the s UVA was again one of the most successful all-around sports programs with NCAA national titles achieved in an array of different sports.

Today it is a four-year public liberal arts college called the University of Virginia's College at Wise and currently enrolls 2, students. George Mason University and the aforementioned Mary Washington University used to exist as similar satellite campusesbut those are now wholly self-administered.

As such, UVA's is to this day the only U. President Sullivan speaks with U. Secretary of State John Kerry in front of The Rotunda in Due to a continual decline in state funding for the university, today only 6 percent of its budget comes from the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Sullivan as its first female president in Ryan became the university's ninth president.

The campus straddles the border between the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. In Januaryless than a year before the Great Rotunda Fire, The New York Times said that the design of the University of Virginia "was incomparably the most ambitious and monumental architectural project that had or has yet been conceived in this century.

The principal building of the design, the Rotunda, stands at the north end of the Lawn, and is the most recognizable symbol of the university. It is half the height and width of the Pantheon in Romewhich was the primary inspiration for the building. The Lawn and the Rotunda were the model for many similar designs of "centralized green areas" at universities across the country.

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The space was designed for students and professors to live in the same area. The Rotunda, which symbolized knowledge, showed hierarchy.

The south end of the lawn was left open to symbolize the view of cultivated fields to the south, as reflective of Jefferson's ideal for an agrarian-focused nation.

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Most notably designed by inspiration of the Rotunda and Lawn are the expansive green spaces headed by similar buildings built at: Flanking both sides of the Rotunda and extending down the length of the Lawn are ten Pavilions interspersed with student rooms. Each has its own classical architectural style, as well as its own walled garden separated by Jeffersonian Serpentine walls.

Notre Dame and Alabama moved into the top two spots. Snyder emerged, Styrofoam cup of coffee in his right hand, and coolly dissected the beatdown. In the finality of January, it is easy to forget the excitement that sprang forth in September when West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith racked up touchdowns like they were first downs. Through two games, Smith threw as many touchdowns as incompletions -- nine.

In the fourth game, Smith beat that ratio, completing of passes for yards and eight touchdowns. The fact that the Mountaineers needed every single one, beating Baylorwarned of the problems ahead.

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West Virginia, after a start, lost its next five contests and finished But in the early morn of the season, Smith made West Virginia's Big 12 debut look like the dawn of a new era.

Word began to trickle out of Fayetteville early on a December morning. Little Rock columnist Wally Hall tweeted that Arkansas had hired a coach and that it would be a surprise. The news that Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema walked into athletic director Barry Alvarez's hotel room in New York and told him he was leaving -- just like that -- rocked the sport.

The only grace note for the Badgers is that the players convinced Alvarez, a Hall of Fame coach, to return to the sideline for the Rose Bowl. Alabama led Georgia with: From the Tide 8-yard-line, Bulldogs quarterback Aaron Murray signaled a fade pass to the right side of the end zone.

Georgia had ended dozens of two-minute drills with this play. It would either be a touchdown or an incompletion that left time for one more snap. That was the beauty of the play. But when Tide linebacker C. Mosley tipped Murray's pass in midair, instinct overtook all those practices.

Chris Conley caught it and went down inbounds, 5 yards short of the goal line. Not to mention 5 yards short of the national title game.

Mike Mauti and Penn State's seniors helped turn what could have been a disastrous season into an campaign filled with memorable moments. Seniors ignore new coaching staffs all the time. But these seniors didn't. Together, with O'Brien, they salvaged what could have been an ugly season.

Linebacker Michael Mautithe heart and soul of the locker room, tore up his knee in the next-to-last game. When he was introduced before the season finale against Wisconsin, the Beaver Stadium crowd roared its appreciation. And when the Badgers missed a field goal in overtime and the Nittany Lions beat the Big Ten champs-to-be,the players and coaches celebrated as if they had won the crystal football.